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We're having a baby...anyone else with us?

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Trying harder is not always the answer, especially when “trying” is really just digging. Welcome to one of our favorite Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) ideas: the Person In A Hole metaphor. If you have ever thrown yourself at anxiety, grief, shame, or relationship tension with every coping tool you can find and somehow ended up feeling worse, this conversation puts clear language to what is happening and what to do next.
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If your default setting is “sorry to bother you,” this one is for you. We’re back from our break with plenty of life updates and laughs, but the core of the conversation gets practical fast: how to protect your self-respect when you’re asking for something, setting a boundary, or saying no.

We close out our three-part DBT interpersonal effectiveness series by focusing on self-respect effectiveness through the FAST skill (Dialectical Behavior Therapy): "F" (be fair,) "A" (no apologies), "S" (stick to values) and "T" (be truthful.)

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We'll be back next week with a FULLY ORIGINAL EPISODE!

In the meantime, we hope to offset your boredom with a well-timed rerun of our classic episode about BOREDOM (and the surprising value that can come from embracing it.)

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In honor of Halloween (and the fact that our schedules have been ESPECIALLY SPOOKY lately) we are airing a re-run of this WISE MIND classic.

Values...what even are they? We all talk about values, but do we really understand them? Values are an elusive beast. More abstract than goals, but ultimately at the core of our essence. On this EXTREMELY SPOOKY EPISODE, we talk about how to untangle our own values from those we've been taught, what we'd want people to say at our 80th birthdays, and whether or not it's wise to scare ourselves...BOO!

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